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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;satootoko, post: 37489, member: 669&quot;]Well, you have to remember that this is a gathering place for <i><b>coin</b></i> collectors.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think it&#039;s at all unexpected that most of us would frown on the conversion of nice coins into other things.</p><p><br /></p><p>Spoon collectors, on the other hand, who expressed the same distaste for converted coins <i>would</i> be acting in an unexpected manner.</p><p>&nbsp;That&#039;s easy - they are highly valued by <i>spoon</i> collectors, and by collectors of other memorabilia whose areas of interest they fit.</p><p><br /></p><p>We numismatists are far from the only obsessive-compulsives wandering loose. <img src="http://64.91.226.227/images/emoticons/hmmm2.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I have one acquaintance who regularly buys old children&#039;s mechanical banks for 5 and 6 figure prices, and thinks I am nuts to pay 4 figures for a Japanese ¥100,000 gold commemorative.&nbsp; Go figure!!<img src="http://64.91.226.227/images/emoticons/bug-eye.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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